Great comic! soooooo true! A friend who learned the same language (russian) told me not to worry about it though, because all those words are still floating around in the back of your brain somewhere and they will eventually come back. seems to be true

my god, i can finally expalin this phenomena with a comic lol! with every passing day i feel like i need like to check the dictionary for more and more english words' spelling. my friends think i'm retarded

If you have a small language as a native one, it is very easy to forget words at home! Since internet, movies, university courses and whatnot is in English, we tend to do this. In Dutch (both in the Netherlands, as in Belgium) the English word 'awkward' is a thing now. But the new Dutch sentence 'Dat is awkward' is... awkward we just say the whole thing in English now: 'That's awkward'. Btw, the native Dutch word is 'ongemakkelijk', which is way to long to say ;-)

True. It became a word to describe the feeling you had when you met the Ongemakkelijk. Now, we are to secularized to believe in it anymore, so the meaning of the word got generalized. (gemak=ease, gemakkelijk=easily, ongemakkelijk=uneasily)

I love this comic! I don't even live abroad but I find myself doing that with German all the time, because it's my second language and I speak/read/write it often. Sometimes when I get a cold I want to say "I have colded myself"!

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ITCHY FEET is the weekly web comic about travel, life in foreign countries, and learning new languages. Readers can expect an astonishing array of exaggerated facial expressions, humorous situations involving foreigners and foreign lands, and ordinary silliness.